Todd R. Golub

Todd Golub is a founding member of the Broad Institute and serves as director of its Cancer program. Todd is a world leader in applying genomic tools to the classification and study of cancers. His work focuses on using the human genome to understand the biological and clinical challenges facing cancer medicine. He has made fundamental discoveries in the molecular basis of childhood leukemia, and pioneered the use of genomic approaches, particularly DNA microarrays, to cancer biology.

In 1997, Todd joined the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center of Genome Research, now part of the Broad Institute, as director of its program in cancer. He is the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Todd is the recipient of multiple awards, including Discover Magazine's Inventor of the Year (Health Category) in 2000, the Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society in 2001, and the Outstanding Achievement Award for the American Association for Cancer Research in 2002.

Todd received his B.A. in 1985 from Carleton College and his M.D. in 1989 from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.